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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password by davidjfelix on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:51AM (#28682149)
What do you do if you want to change email provider or your email provider decides to stop their email service.

I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity. Unless you're using your own domain it's a wash anyways right?

I think this is an acceptable trust. I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail (apple hide my email).

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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password by jorams on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:23AM (#28682454)
> I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity.

> I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail

Fastmail launched 5 years before Gmail, in 1999. It's also a paid product with a sustainable business model. It's hard to get more longevity than that.

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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password by apple4ever on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:24AM (#28682469)
> I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity.

> I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail (apple hide my email).

Fastmail (launched 1999) is older than Gmail (launched 2004).

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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password by beyer on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:22AM (#28682437)
Buy a super cheap domain that you park all of these new email addresses at, like 7467j.com. Then, if you ever need to switch providers, take the entire domain with you.
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Re:Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password by davzie on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:53AM (#28682165)
I have my own domain
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